Protestant Episcopal ChurchTHE GOSPEL ADVOCATE, Conducted by a Society of Gentlemen. Volume V and VI for the Years 1825 and 1826. Boston: True and Greene, 1825. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 1825: [viii], 400 pages of text including an index. Two bound volumes of this monthly publication containing issue Nos.49-59 and 61-72, otherwise known as Vol. V Nos. 1-12 and Vol VI, Nos. 1-12. 1826: [viii], 490 pages (actually 390 pages) of text followed by [ii] pages of index. One page with a clean tear. There is an error in pagination; page 298 leads to page 399, making the page count of this work about 100 pages less. Both matching original full leather bindings have moderate shelfwear and some scuffing, remaining intact and attractive. Previous owner's bookplate on the inside front covers (E.D. Campbell Ann Arbor, Michigan), and handwritten name on the title page: H.M. Campbell. Henry M. Campbell was an early settler of Detroit, arriving there in 1826. Heavy foxing to the endpapers, and minor foxing scattered lightly throughout the text. Complete with a table of contents and index, this work offers much in the way of business affairs, concerns and pursuits of the Church, as well as sermons. Articles include those on Peschier's defense of Indian Missions, on Cherokees, Choctaws, and missions in the Sandwich Islands, Malta, Syria, Palestine, Buenos Ayres, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Burmah, Bishop Chase's visit to the Oneida and Mohawk Indians in Ohio, on Chinese worship, Bishop Hobart's visit and Address to the Oneida Indians, etc., etc. First edition..

Obstoiatel'noe opisanie slaviano-rossiiskikh rukopisei, khraniashchikhsia v Moskve v biblioteke tainogo sovetnika, senatora, dvora ego imperatorskago velichestva deistvitel'nogo kammergera i kavalera grafa Fedora Andreevicha Tolstova [Detailed description of Slavonic Russian manuscripts in the Moscow collection of . Count Fedor Andreevich Tolstoy]. WITH: Pervoe pribavlenie k opisaniiu. [First supplement to the description. v Tipografii S. Selivanovskogo; N. Grech, Moscow and St. Petersburg 1825 - Octavos (21 × 13.5 cm). Contemporary mottled calf with gilt borders, spine blind-stamped and with red label; marbled endpapers; LXVII, [1], 811, [6] and 17 pp. Front hinge starting; boards with light wear and soil; internally very good or better. [IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN AND SLAVONIC MANUSCRIPTS]. First edition, along with the separately issued leaves of plates and the first (of two) separate supplements, of this description of the famous collection of Russian and Slavonic manuscripts of Fedor Tolstoy (1758-1849), compiled by his librarian, Pavel M. Stroev (1796-1876), and the scholar Konstantin Kalaidovich (1792-1832). Tolstoy's celebrated library was particularly strongin manuscripts of the eleventh through seventeenth centuries, early printing in the West, as well as early calendars. The bulk of the collection is today housed at the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The first supplement to the description lists recent acquisitions by Tolstoy; the "Paleographical Charts of Scripts of the XI to XVIII Century" lithographically reproduce twelve samples from the collection on five folding leaves, partly in color. Scarce in the trade, especially with the charts and first supplement; no auction records traced in the West. In North America, KVK, OCLC only appear to show the copy at Harvard. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Obstoiatel'noe opisanie slaviano-rossiiskikh rukopisei, khraniashchikhsia v Moskve v biblioteke tainogo sovetnika, senatora, dvora ego imperatorskago velichestva deistvitel'nogo kammergera i kavalera grafa Fedora Andreevicha Tolstova [Detailed description of Slavonic Russian manuscripts in the Moscow collection of ... Count Fedor Andreevich Tolstoy]. WITH: Pervoe pribavlenie k opisaniiu... [First supplement to the description... Moscow and St. Petersburg: v Tipografii S. Selivanovskogo; N. Grech, 1825. Octavos (21 × 13.5 cm). Contemporary mottled calf with gilt borders, spine blind-stamped and with red label; marbled endpapers; LXVII, [1], 811, [6] and 17 pp. Front hinge starting; boards with light wear and soil; internally very good or better. [IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN AND SLAVONIC MANUSCRIPTS]. First edition, along with the separately issued leaves of plates and the first (of two) separate supplements, of this description of the famous collection of Russian and Slavonic manuscripts of Fedor Tolstoy (1758-1849), compiled by his librarian, Pavel M. Stroev (1796-1876), and the scholar Konstantin Kalaidovich (1792-1832). Tolstoy's celebrated library was particularly strongin manuscripts of the eleventh through seventeenth centuries, early printing in the West, as well as early calendars. The bulk of the collection is today housed at the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The first supplement to the description lists recent acquisitions by Tolstoy; the "Paleographical Charts of Scripts of the XI to XVIII Century" lithographically reproduce twelve samples from the collection on five folding leaves, partly in color. Scarce in the trade, especially with the charts and first supplement; no auction records traced in the West. In North America, KVK, OCLC only appear to show the copy at Harvard.

ZINDEL, Christian SiegmundDer Eislauf oder das Schrittschuhfahren, ein Taschenbuch für Jung und Alt. Mit Gedichten von Klopstock, Göthe, Herder, Cramer, Krummacher etc. Nuremberg: Campe, 1825. 8vo (172 x 98 mm). [2] leaves, 180 pp. Six etched plates, including frontispiece, by Johann Adam Klein. Wove paper, the plates on thick card paper. Light foxing to the plates. Publisher's illustrated paper boards (soiled, darkened, and rubbed with a couple of losses to paper), bright green edges. Provenance: twentieth-century bookplate of "Dr. Sträguber."***First Edition of a notoriously rare ice-skating book, beautifully illustrated, and in its original illustrated binding. Ice-skating became popular among the bourgeoisie in Germany in the late 18th century. The earliest German book on ice-skating was by Gerhard Ulrich Anton Vieth, whose anonymously published and extremely rare Ueber das Schlittschuhlaufen appeared in 1790. One or two other publications preceded the present tribute to the pastime, which is the most detailed and elaborately illustrated early work of the genre, and "the first book in any language to describe skating with a partner" (Hines). The author and compiler Zindel approaches the sport, or art, both technically and lyrically. Part one contains instructions for equipment, proper form and technique, safety precautions, exercises, meeting-places, and instructions for ice-dancing in a group. The second part, called an Anhang or Supplement but taking up nearly half of the book, contains 27 literary pieces (previously published). Most are by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, whose 1764 poem "Der Eislauf" (the first poem in the section) helped launch the vogue for ice-skating; others are from Goethe (also a passionate skater), Carl Friedrich Cramer and Johann Gottfried Herder. The final chapters provide a brief history of ice-skating, accounts of recent iceskating races, speed records, and ice festivals, and finally, news of the latest Parisian fashions for ice-skating attire, for both ladies and gentlemen.Zindel's book was praised by Lanckoronska and Rümann as a notable exception to the generally indifferent quality of late Romantic gift books, children books, and Taschenbücher (p. 164), "particularly because of the fine illustrations by the Nuremberg engraver Johann Adam Klein." Klein's frontispiece depicts dozens of skaters on the Nuremberg lake, the Dutzendteich. The other plates show an assortment of skates with different kinds of attaches, a front and back view of the costume and posture of the "Schrittschuhfahrer" (lead skater), men skating in groups and "ice-waltzing", and a woman being pushed in a skate-chair. The illustrated binding shows on each cover six of the signs of the zodiac, above and below an allegorical scene, of the winds blowing down snow on a crowd of skaters on the front cover, and the god of Winter giving an order to his minions on the lower cover. Zindel's choice of vocabulary to describe the art of ice-skating was laden with poetic resonance. In German, the usual words for ice skates and ice-skating were by this time (as they still are) Schlittschuhe and Schlittschuhfahren. This was a distortion of the original word Schrittschuh, derived from Old Saxon skridsk h, and Old High German scritiscuoh. Klopstock in particular, who is addressed by Cramer in a letter included in this edition, as "O Klopstock, great Apostle of Ice-skating!" (p. 99), energetically defended the use of the r rather than the l, on rather different grounds, as reported by Goethe in Dichtung und Wahrheit (Book 5, Part 3), where he related Klopstock's insistence that the word derived from the verb schreiten, to stride, "indem man, zum Homerischen Göttern gleich, auf diesen geflügelten Sohlen über das zum Boden gewordene Meer hinschritte..." (because, like Homeric gods, on these winged soles one strides forward over the lake, [which has] become the ground"). A supposed 1824 edition with the same imprint, listed in some bibliographies, is a ghost. Klein's engravings were reprinted in 1925 as the annual book for the Friends' Circle of the Berlin State Art Library, and a modern facsimile edition of the present edition was published in 1980. OCLC lists two copies in American libraries, at Yale and MIT.Goedeke IV/3, 223, 7; Lanckoronska-Rümann, Geschichte der deutschen Taschenbücher und Almanache aus der klassisch-romantischen Zeit, 164-5. Hayn-Gotendorf 8:658 ("sought after and scarce!"); Lipperheide Thb 8 (= 3046, illus.); Foster, Bibliography of Skating (1898), pp. 39-40; J. R. Hines, Figure Skating in the Formative Years (2015), p. 31; cf. Thieme-Becker 20:440-442.

McCULLOCH, John Ramsay The Principles of Political Economy: Edinburgh: for William and Charles Tait, and Longman & Co, London,, 1825. with a sketch of the rise and progress of the science. Octavo (218 x 128 mm). Modern tan full levant morocco, contemporary red morocco label reused, flat bands ruled in gilt, central tool to compartments gilt, edges speckled brown. Bound without the half-title and publisher's ads. Faint spotting to endleaves. An excellent copy. First edition of the author's first major work, expanded from his contribution to the 1824 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "the first substantive text on political economy to appear in the encyclopaedia" (ODNB). David Ricardo, with whom McCulloch corresponded since he started taking an interest in political economy as a young man, described the article as a "valuable historical sketch" and "clear exposition of all the important principles of the science that you have left nothing for me to wish for" (P. Sraffa and M. H. Dobb (eds.), The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, 195173, Vol. 9, p. 275). The Principles of Economy enjoyed a wave of popularity soon after publication and went through five editions but was supplanted in the late 1840s by John Stuart Mill's work of the same title. McCulloch's discussion on profit and interest with regards to a cask of wine is still used today to illustrate the labour theory of value: "Suppose, to illustrate the principle, that a cask of new wine, which cost £50, is put into a cellar, and that, at the end of twelve months, it is worth £55, the question is  whether ought the £5 of additional value, given to the wine, be considered as a compensation for the time the £50 worth of capital has been locked up, or should it be considered as the value of additional labour actually laid out in the wine?" (p. 313).

Protestant Episcopal ChurchTHE GOSPEL ADVOCATE, Conducted by a Society of Gentlemen. Volume V and VI for the Years 1825 and 1826. Boston: True and Greene, 1825. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 1825: [viii], 400 pages of text including an index. Two bound volumes of this monthly publication containing issue Nos.49-59 and 61-72, otherwise known as Vol. V Nos. 1-12 and Vol VI, Nos. 1-12. 1826: [viii], 490 pages (actually 390 pages) of text followed by [ii] pages of index. One page with a clean tear. There is an error in pagination; page 298 leads to page 399, making the page count of this work about 100 pages less. Both matching original full leather bindings have moderate shelfwear and some scuffing, remaining intact and attractive. Previous owner's bookplate on the inside front covers (E.D. Campbell Ann Arbor, Michigan), and handwritten name on the title page: H.M. Campbell. Henry M. Campbell was an early settler of Detroit, arriving there in 1826. Heavy foxing to the endpapers, and minor foxing scattered lightly throughout the text. Complete with a table of contents and index, this work offers much in the way of business affairs, concerns and pursuits of the Church, as well as sermons. Articles include those on Peschier's defense of Indian Missions, on Cherokees, Choctaws, and missions in the Sandwich Islands, Malta, Syria, Palestine, Buenos Ayres, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Burmah, Bishop Chase's visit to the Oneida and Mohawk Indians in Ohio, on Chinese worship, Bishop Hobart's visit and Address to the Oneida Indians, etc., etc. First edition..

Josephus FlaviusWORKS OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian and Celebrated Warrior. With Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's Command to Abraham. [Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, &c., and The Life of Josephus, Written by Himself and the Book of Apion. [Translated...Together With Explanatory Notes and Observations] by William Whiston London: Printed for William Baynes and Son, 1825. 2 volumes. An early printing of the Whiston edition. Engraved frontispiece, folding map of Canaan and Palestine and a folding plan of Jerusalem. 8vo, bound in full contemporary diced calf, the spines in five compartments separated by wide raised bands triple gilt ruled and decorated, two compartments with contrasting red and black morocco lettering labels gilt, the covers ruled in gilt, marbled edges. 635; 652 including appendices and index pp. A handsome and well preserved set with light aging to the bindings which remain in very good order. The textblocks are clean, crisp and unpressed, only occasionally showing any foxing, the plates remain in very good order as well with a bit of the expected usual spotting. A FINE EARLY PRINTING OF JOSEPHUS AND WITH A FINE LIFE OF JOSEPHUS INCLUDED. "Josephus was a learned Jew who lived in the latter half of the first century of our era. At Rome he early made a favorable impression on the imperial government. Returning to Jerusalem, he endeavored to dissuade his countrymen from their intended revolt against Roman authority; but, failing in his efforts, he joined the war party. He was made a general, and was entrusted with the defense of Galilee; but, after a desperate resistance, was betrayed to the Roman commander. Long held as a prisoner, he was present at the siege of Jerusalem. At the close of the war he went to Rome, was presented with the freedom of the city, an annual pension, and a house that had formerly been the residence of an imperial family. The remainder of his life he gave up to literary pursuits" (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, p. 81). His works cover the entire history of the nation to the fall of Jerusalem.

Mackenzie, EAn Historical Topographical and Descriptive View of the County of Northumberland and of those Parts of the County of Durham situated north of the River Tyne with Berwick upon Tweed etc. 2 volume set Newcastle upon Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent. Covers worn and scuffed. Name of previous owner in ink to fep. Prelims spotted. Hinges cracked but binding intact. Pages untrimmed. Bookplate on ep. 1825. Second Edition. Black hardback half-leather cover. 295mm x 230mm (12" x 9"). x, 499pp; 515pp. 16 b/w engravings plus fold-out map. Plus other b/w illustrations within text. The history of the county is followed by statistics (populations, trade and resources) and a description of each ward, parish and ownship. This latter section is enlivened by short biographical notices of persons distinguished by 'habits of eccentricity' or 'intellectual and moral excellence'. .

DOYLE, General Sir John.:THE SUBSTANCE OF THE SPEECH OF GENERAL SIR JOHN DOYLE, BART. G.C.B. AND K.C. AT THE INDIA HOUSE, UPON THE HYDERABAD PAPERS, ON FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1825. London, Matthew Iley, 1825.. FIRST EDITION 1825. 8vo, approximately 220 x 130 mm, 8¾ x 5¼ inches, 77 pages, finely bound in full straight grain black morocco, triple gilt ruled outer border enclosing elaborate gilt and blind border to covers, triple ruled inner border with corner ornaments, faux gilt raised bands, richly gilt in compartments, gilt title, all edges gilt, red endpapers. Binding slightly rubbed at head and tail of spine and at corners, endpapers darkened at edges, very occasional small pale mark to margins of pages. A very good copy of a very scarce pamphlet. General Sir John Doyle (1756-1834), was one of the four sons of Charles Doyle of Bramblestown, Ireland. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, he served with the British army in the United States. When the Civil War ended there in 1784, he returned to Ireland where he was elected Member of Parliament for Mullingar and proved himself an eloquent speaker in the pre-Union, Irish House of Commons. Sir John raised the famous 87th Regiment in 1794 to serve in the Netherlands. He served as a brigadier general with Abercrombie in Egypt in 1800, distinguished himself, and was made a baronet in 1805, and a full general in 1819. At one time he was Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales. When he retired he was appointed Governor of Guernsey where his able administration, assisted by a nephew, also John Doyle, is commemorated by an impressive column. In this speech Doyle addresses a court convened in the London headquarters of the East India Company to defend and eulogise his life-long friend Lord Hastings (1754-1826), recently retired from his highly successful and highly praised 9 year post as Governor General of India. Lord Hastings' last years of office were embittered by discussions on a matter notorious at the time, namely, the affairs of the banking-house of W. Palmer and Company. The whole affair was mixed up with insinuations against him especially charging him with having been motivated by favoritism towards one of the partners in the firm. From imputations made by the Resident at the court of the Nizam Charles Metcalfe which were inconsistent with his whole character and which were repeated by directors of the Company he was subsequently exonerated. The whole affair as well as Lord Hastings' huge achievements in India for the Company and for the Government are analysed in depth by Doyle. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Volume II, page 276, No. 24533. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

ZINDEL, Christian Siegmund.Der Eislauf oder das Schrittschuhfahren, ein Taschenbuch für Jung und Alt. Mit Gedichten von Klopstock, Göthe, Herder, Cramer, Krummacher etc. Nuremberg: Campe, 1825. 8vo (172 x 98 mm). [2] leaves, 180 pp. Six etched plates, including frontispiece, by Johann Adam Klein. Wove paper, the plates on thick card paper. Light foxing to the plates. Publisher's illustrated paper boards (soiled, darkened, and rubbed with a couple of losses to paper), bright green edges. Provenance: twentieth-century bookplate of "Dr. Sträguber."*** First Edition of a notoriously rare ice-skating book, beautifully illustrated, and in its original illustrated binding. Ice-skating became popular among the bourgeoisie in Germany in the late 18th century. The earliest German book on ice-skating was by Gerhard Ulrich Anton Vieth, whose anonymously published and extremely rare Ueber das Schlittschuhlaufen appeared in 1790. One or two other publications preceded the present tribute to the pastime, which is the most detailed and elaborately illustrated early work of the genre, and "the first book in any language to describe skating with a partner" (Hines). The author and compiler Zindel approaches the sport, or art, both technically and lyrically. Part one contains instructions for equipment, proper form and technique, safety precautions, exercises, meeting-places, and instructions for ice-dancing in a group. The second part, called an Anhang or Supplement but taking up nearly half of the book, contains 27 literary pieces (previously published). Most are by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, whose 1764 poem "Der Eislauf" (the first poem in the section) helped launch the vogue for ice-skating; others are from Goethe (also a passionate skater), Carl Friedrich Cramer and Johann Gottfried Herder. The final chapters provide a brief history of ice-skating, accounts of recent iceskating races, speed records, and ice festivals, and finally, news of the latest Parisian fashions for ice-skating attire, for both ladies and gentlemen. Zindel's book was praised by Lanckoronska and Rümann as a notable exception to the generally indifferent quality of late Romantic gift books, children books, and Taschenbücher (p. 164), "particularly because of the fine illustrations by the Nuremberg engraver Johann Adam Klein." Klein's frontispiece depicts dozens of skaters on the Nuremberg lake, the Dutzendteich. The other plates show an assortment of skates with different kinds of attaches, a front and back view of the costume and posture of the "Schrittschuhfahrer" (lead skater), men skating in groups and "ice-waltzing", and a woman being pushed in a skate-chair. The illustrated binding shows on each cover six of the signs of the zodiac, above and below an allegorical scene, of the winds blowing down snow on a crowd of skaters on the front cover, and the god of Winter giving an order to his minions on the lower cover. Zindel's choice of vocabulary to describe the art of ice-skating was laden with poetic resonance. In German, the usual words for ice skates and ice-skating were by this time (as they still are) Schlittschuhe and Schlittschuhfahren. This was a distortion of the original word Schrittschuh, derived from Old Saxon skridsk h, and Old High German scritiscuoh. Klopstock in particular, who is addressed by Cramer in a letter included in this edition, as "O Klopstock, great Apostle of Ice-skating!" (p. 99), energetically defended the use of the r rather than the l, on rather different grounds, as reported by Goethe in Dichtung und Wahrheit (Book 5, Part 3), where he related Klopstock's insistence that the word derived from the verb schreiten, to stride, "indem man, zum Homerischen Göttern gleich, auf diesen geflügelten Sohlen über das zum Boden gewordene Meer hinschritte..." (because, like Homeric gods, on these winged soles one strides forward over the lake, [which has] become the ground"). A supposed 1824 edition with the same imprint, listed in some bibliographies, is a ghost. Klein's engravings were reprinted in 1925 as the annual book for the Friends' Circle of the Berlin State Art Library, and a modern facsimile edition of the present edition was published in 1980. OCLC lists two copies in American libraries, at Yale and MIT. Goedeke IV/3, 223, 7; Lanckoronska-Rümann, Geschichte der deutschen Taschenbücher und Almanache aus der klassisch-romantischen Zeit, 164-5. Hayn-Gotendorf 8:658 ("sought after and scarce!"); Lipperheide Thb 8 (= 3046, illus.); Foster, Bibliography of Skating (1898), pp. 39-40; J. R. Hines, Figure Skating in the Formative Years (2015), p. 31; cf. Thieme-Becker 20:440-442.

[Charles Molloy Westmacott, writing as] BLACKMANTLE, Bernard (c. 1788-1868)The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious. London: Sherwood, Jones and Co. [through 1826], 1825. First Edition. Supposed First Issue (with plate 28 , vol. I, misdated 1284 and p.222, vol. II, blank) of one of the finest English color plate books, complete in two volumes. (Abbey and Tooley disagree, with Abbey arguing that these points are without bibliographical value.) Royal 8vo: xiii,417; xv,[1],399,[1]pp, with 71 hand-colored aquatints by Robert Cruikshank, Rowlandson, and others; 1 uncolored woodcut plate and 74 wood engravings in text. Bound in full crimson levant morocco, covers framed with French fillets, elaborately gilt-tooled spines and dentelles, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. the binding exquisite. Light bumping and wear to several corners, mild offsetting from plates, very occasional foxing, still an excellent copy inside and out, the binding exquisite, the plates vividly colored. Abbey Life 325. Tooley 504. Prideaux, p. 310. Martin Hardie, pp. 191-92. Originally published in 24 monthly parts, The English Spy provides a vivid panorama of English high- and low-life, "a veritable chronique scandaleuse of the time. In the pages of this extraordinary work figure all the notables of the day, either openly or under slight disguise" (Hardie). Described by Prideaux as "perhaps the most daring book ever published," as many of the characters, including Lord Byron, Beau Brummell, Pierce Egan, Pea-green Hayne, Henry Brougham, and the Duke of Wellington, were instantly recognizable to its early readers. Most of the plates are by Robert Cruikshank, who figures in the book under the pseudonym "Robert Transit"; two plates are by Thomas Rowlandson, notably "R.--A.'s [Royal Academicians] of Genius Reflecting on the True Line of Beauty at the Life Academy" (featuring portraits of West, Shee, Haydon, Lawrence, Westmacott and Flaxman); a few others were contributed by G. M. Brighty and T. Wageman. The numerous in-text woodcuts are after Cruikshank, Rowlandson, Gillray and Finlay. The lively text is by the journalist (and blackmailer) C. M. Westmacott, notorious as a muckraker and for extorting large sums of money from victims, including royalty, eager to keep their names out of print. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Burnett, Alexander [Mr. Maginn, Surgeon (Member of the Society of Practical Medicine of Paris)]The Medical Adviser and Complete Guide to Health and Long Life: Containing the most plain and easy directions for the treatment of every disorder incidental to the human frame in all its ages by Alexander Burnett and Mr. Maginn, Surgeon (Member of the Society of Practical Medicine of Paris) and other medical gentlemen (Volume I only) Published by John Williams, 13 Paternoster Row, London First Edition 1825. 1825., 1825. First edition hard back binding recently rebound in half burgundy leather covers, four raised bands to the spine with gilt lines, high lights, and centre tools, gilt title and author lettering between the bands, marble paper covered boards, new hand made paper end leaves. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains frontispiece; [iii] + 2 plates; 736 + 1 plate + [iv] printed pages of text with many full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Some foxing to some of the the plates and some margins, slight age browning to the page edges. Member of the P.B.F.A.

WILSON, HarrietteThe Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: Written by Herself. WILSON, Harriette .The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: Written by Herself. London 1825, Printed and Published by T. Douglas 2 Mary Street Hampstead Road. 3 vols, First Editions. Pp Vol 1, (iv) 244; Vol 11, (iv) 239; Vol III, (iv) 239. Complete. Illustrated with hand coloured plates, with a frontis to each volume and plates within the text. Bound uniformly in full blue leather, gilt to the spines in six compartments, gilt turn-ins , top edges gilt with red labels to each volume. Spines and some of the boards now faded to brown. Stamps of Brentano's New York, and Morrell, Binder, London to verso of front free endpapers in each volume. Very handsome bindings , with a minimum of rubbing or other defect. Uncommon. Harriette Wilson [22 February 1786 - 10 March 1845] was the most famous British Regency courtesan of her times, who became the mistress of William, Lord Craven at the age of 15. Later in her extraordinary career she had dealings with Arthur Wellesley, the Duke Of Wellington, who supposedly said" Publish and be Damned" on hearing that Wilson was about to publish these memoirs. Wilson was one of four sisters, three of whom, Amy, Fanny and Sophia also became courtesans. Harriette claims that Amy led them into their careers by her poor example. Wilson also attracted George IV's interest, by writing to him directly. He claimed that he would "do anything to suppress what Harriette had to reveal of Lady Conyngham" who was his mistress. Harriet claims that Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne assaulted her because of his jealousy of other lovers that she had become acquainted with, (the Duke of Argyle and Lord Ponsonby) and because she had refused his advances. It seems likely that other notable politicians paid to keep their names out of public scrutiny. We find the work interesting because it highlights the hypocrisy of the times; Harriet was a contemporary of Jane Austen, but her volumes of memoirs are a long way from the polite society portrayed in Austen's writing.

Lowe, E.J.Fern Growing. Fifty years' experience in crossing and cultivation. pp.xi, [i], 196 with engraved frontis., one coloured plate, one photo-etched plate and many illus. throughout the text. 4to. Very minor foxing, o/w., the contents are in fine condition. Hardback. Original blue/green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, all in excellent, nr. fine condition. With the library stamp of botanist Anthony Huxley to ffep. A most pleasing copy. Very scarce. E.J. Lowe (1825-1900) made a significant contribution to pteridology. At the time of publication, the Journal of Botany reviewed Fern Growing' writing his enthusiasm is as intense as it ever was.....the summary of experiments and results which he gives is both valuable and interesting and we note with pleasure his hearty recognition of other works in the same field.....a handsome volume' (Hall and Rickard).